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The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers (2015)
Journal Article
Pant, P. R., Budhathoki, B., Ellis, M., Manandhar, D., Deave, T., & Mytton, J. (2015). The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers. BMC Public Health, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-1783-5

© 2015 Pant et al.; licensee BioMed Central. Abstract Background Injuries accounted for 23% of all deaths in children and adolescents in Nepal during 2010 (n = 3,700). Despite this, there is no national death registration or injury surveillance syste... Read More about The feasibility of community mobilisation for child injury prevention in rural Nepal: A programme for female community health volunteers.

Epidemiology of unintentional child injuries in the makwanpur district of Nepal: A household survey (2015)
Journal Article
Pant, P. R., Towner, E., Ellis, M., Manandhar, D., Pilkington, P., & Mytton, J. (2015). Epidemiology of unintentional child injuries in the makwanpur district of Nepal: A household survey. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 12(12), 15118-15128. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph121214967

© 2015 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Secondary sources of information indicate that the proportion of child deaths due to injuries is increasing in Nepal. This study aimed to describe the epidemiology of unintentional injuries in... Read More about Epidemiology of unintentional child injuries in the makwanpur district of Nepal: A household survey.

Lessons learned from the AFLY5 RCT process evaluation: Implications for the design of physical activity and nutrition interventions in schools Health behavior, health promotion and society (2015)
Journal Article
Jago, R., Rawlins, E., Kipping, R. R., Wells, S., Chittleborough, C., Peters, T. J., …Campbell, R. (2015). Lessons learned from the AFLY5 RCT process evaluation: Implications for the design of physical activity and nutrition interventions in schools Health behavior, health promotion and society. BMC Public Health, 15(1), 946. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-015-2293-1

© 2015 Jago et al. Background: Systematic reviews have highlighted that school-based diet and physical activity (PA) interventions have had limited effects. This study used qualitative methods to examine how the effectiveness of future primary (eleme... Read More about Lessons learned from the AFLY5 RCT process evaluation: Implications for the design of physical activity and nutrition interventions in schools Health behavior, health promotion and society.

Enabling data linkage to maximise the value of public health research data (2015)
Report
Green, E., Ritchie, F., Mytton, J., Webber, D. J., Deave, T., Montgomery, A., …Chowdhury, S. (2015). Enabling data linkage to maximise the value of public health research data

This project was commissioned by The Wellcome Trust on behalf of the Public Health Research Data Forum. The project aimed to identify the gains to public health research from linking existing data sources, the opportunities in and barriers to such da... Read More about Enabling data linkage to maximise the value of public health research data.

UNderstanding uptake of Immunisations in TravellIng aNd Gypsy communities (UNITING): Protocol for an exploratory, qualitative study (2015)
Journal Article
Redsell, S. A., Lewis, H. J., Cheater, F. M., Jackson, C., Bedford, H., Condon, L., …Cheater, F. (2015). UNderstanding uptake of Immunisations in TravellIng aNd Gypsy communities (UNITING): Protocol for an exploratory, qualitative study. BMJ Open, 5(6), e008564. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008564

© BMJ Open 2015. Introduction: Gypsies, Travellers and Roma (referred to here as Travellers) experience significantly poorer health and have shorter life expectancy than the general population. They are also less likely to access health services incl... Read More about UNderstanding uptake of Immunisations in TravellIng aNd Gypsy communities (UNITING): Protocol for an exploratory, qualitative study.

Effect of intervention aimed at increasing physical activity, reducing sedentary behaviour, and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children: Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial (2014)
Journal Article
Lawlor, D. A., Peters, T. J., Noble, S. M., Chittleborough, C. R., Howe, L. D., Kipping, R. R., …Mytton, J. (2014). Effect of intervention aimed at increasing physical activity, reducing sedentary behaviour, and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children: Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial. BMJ, 348, g3256. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g3256

Objective To investigate the effectiveness of a school based intervention to increase physical activity, reduce sedentary behaviour, and increase fruit and vegetable consumption in children. Design Cluster randomised controlled trial. Setting 60 prim... Read More about Effect of intervention aimed at increasing physical activity, reducing sedentary behaviour, and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children: Active for Life Year 5 (AFLY5) school based cluster randomised controlled trial.

Delivering community based child injury prevention in Nepal: A feasibility study (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Pant, P. R., Ellis, M., Deave, T., & Mytton, J. (2014, February). Delivering community based child injury prevention in Nepal: A feasibility study. Poster presented at South West Public Health Scientific Conference, The Winter Gardens, Weston-Super-Mare

Aim: To develop and evaluate an educational programme of child injury prevention and first-aid for dissemination through women’s groups in a rural district of Nepal and determine the feasibility of conducting a cluster randomised controlled trial of... Read More about Delivering community based child injury prevention in Nepal: A feasibility study.

The feasibility of using a parenting programme for the prevention of unintentional home injuries in the under-fives: A cluster randomised controlled trial (2014)
Journal Article
Mytton, J., Ingram, J., Manns, S., Stevens, T., Mulvaney, C., Blair, P., …Stewart-Brown, S. (2014). The feasibility of using a parenting programme for the prevention of unintentional home injuries in the under-fives: A cluster randomised controlled trial. Health Technology Assessment, 18(3), 1-183. https://doi.org/10.3310/hta18030

Background: Unintentional injury is the leading cause of preventable death of children over the age of 1 year in the UK and a major cause of attendance at emergency departments. Children having one injury are at increased risk of further injuries. Pa... Read More about The feasibility of using a parenting programme for the prevention of unintentional home injuries in the under-fives: A cluster randomised controlled trial.

Examining inequalities in the uptake of the school-based HPV vaccination programme in England: A retrospective cohort study (2014)
Journal Article
Mytton, J. A., Fisher, H., Audrey, S., Mytton, J., Hickman, M., & Trotter, C. (2014). Examining inequalities in the uptake of the school-based HPV vaccination programme in England: A retrospective cohort study. Journal of Public Health, 36(1), 36-45. https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdt042

Background: Although uptake of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine is high in the United Kingdom, it is unknown whether the programme has been delivered equitably by ethnicity or deprivation. This study aimed to investigate factors associated with HPV... Read More about Examining inequalities in the uptake of the school-based HPV vaccination programme in England: A retrospective cohort study.

Facilitators and barriers to engagement in parenting programs: A qualitative systematic review (2013)
Journal Article
Mytton, J., Ingram, J., Manns, S., & Thomas, J. (2014). Facilitators and barriers to engagement in parenting programs: A qualitative systematic review. Health Education and Behavior, 41(2), 127-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198113485755

Parenting programs have the potential to improve the health and well-being of parents and children. A challenge for providers is to recruit and retain parents in programs. Studies researching engagement with programs have largely focused on providers... Read More about Facilitators and barriers to engagement in parenting programs: A qualitative systematic review.

Parenting interventions for the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood (2013)
Journal Article
Mytton, J. A., Kendrick, D., Mulvaney, C. A., Kenrick, D., Mulvaney, C., Ye, L., …Stewart-Brown, S. (2013). Parenting interventions for the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, 2013(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD006020.pub3

© 2013 The Cochrane Collaboration. Background: Parent education and training programmes can improve maternal psychosocial health, child behavioural problems and parenting practices. This review assesses the effects of parenting interventions for redu... Read More about Parenting interventions for the prevention of unintentional injuries in childhood.

The feasibility of using local general practice data to estimate the prevalence of childhood disabling conditions (2013)
Journal Article
Naqvi, H., Ellis, M., Lingam, R., Lingam, R., Ellis, M., Naqvi, H., & Mytton, J. (2013). The feasibility of using local general practice data to estimate the prevalence of childhood disabling conditions. Child: Care, Health and Development, 39(1), 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2214.2012.01385.x

Aims This study aimed to assess the feasibility of using general practice data to estimate the prevalence of potentially disabling conditions in young people aged 0-18 years. Background There are limited data that estimate the prevalence of disabling... Read More about The feasibility of using local general practice data to estimate the prevalence of childhood disabling conditions.

Taking the long view: A systematic review reporting long-term perspectives on child unintentional injury (2012)
Journal Article
Towner, E. M. L., Mytton, J., Powell, J., Pilkington, P., & Gray, S. (2012). Taking the long view: A systematic review reporting long-term perspectives on child unintentional injury. Injury Prevention, 18(5), 334-342. https://doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040343

Objective The relative significance of child injury as a cause of preventable death has increased as mortality from infectious diseases has declined. Unintentional child injuries are now a major cause of death and disability across the world with the... Read More about Taking the long view: A systematic review reporting long-term perspectives on child unintentional injury.

The effectiveness of health appraisal processes currently in addressing health and wellbeing during spatial plan appraisal: A systematic review (2011)
Journal Article
Gray, S., Carmichael, L., Barton, H., Mytton, J., Lease, H., & Joynt, J. (2011). The effectiveness of health appraisal processes currently in addressing health and wellbeing during spatial plan appraisal: A systematic review. BMC Public Health, 11(11), 889. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-889

Background: Spatial planning affects the built environment, which in turn has the potential to have a significant impact on health, for good or ill. One way of ensuring that spatial plans take due account of health is through the inclusion of health... Read More about The effectiveness of health appraisal processes currently in addressing health and wellbeing during spatial plan appraisal: A systematic review.